Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking empathy through literature / edited by Meghan Marie Hammond and Sue J. Kim.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hammond, Meghan Marie
• Kim, Sue J.

Description

ix, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "feeling with" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This collection challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy that is currently emerging from literary studies while also making productive connections to other areas of study such as psychology and neurobiology. While literature has been central to discussions of empathy in divergent disciplines, the ways in which literature is often thought to relate to empathy can be simplistic and/or problematic. The basic yet popular postulation that reading literature necessarily produces empathy and pro-social moral behavior greatly underestimates the complexity of reading, literature, empathy, morality, and society. Even if empathy were a simple neurological process, we would still have to differentiate the many possible kinds of empathy in relation to different forms of art. All the complexities of literary and cultural studies have still to be brought to bear to truly understand the dynamics of literature and empathy"--

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.

Subject

• Empathy in literature
• Literature > Psychology
• Sociology in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology
• PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-6824

ISBN

• 9780415736237 (hardback)
• 0415736234 (hardback)

LCCN

2014004563

OCLC

868199800

Title

Rethinking empathy through literature / edited by Meghan Marie Hammond and Sue J. Kim.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 31.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hammond, Meghan Marie, editor.

Kim, Sue J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6824